Losing Greenland
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EGU: Keeping an eye on carbon crimes
If there was an eye in the sky keeping watch on our greenhouse gas emissions, what carbon crimes would it reveal? Read more
EGU: North Atlantic Ocean may regain status as carbon sink
The North Atlantic Ocean may still be an active storehouse for atmospheric carbon dioxide, said scientists at the European Geosciences Union here in Vienna yesterday. Read more
EGU: Meeting the scientists
Yesterday evening , we held a ‘Meet the Editors’ event at the Nature stand here at the European Geosciences Union conference, and invited scientists to join editors from Nature Geoscience and Nature Reports Climate Change for beer and pretzels. Read more
EGU: Bespoke geoengineering
Scientists at the European Geosciences Union annual conference in Vienna today proposed the idea of using customised engineering for highly specific purposes – such as reversing sea level rise and preventing hurricanes. Read more
EGU: World’s “water towers” under threat
I’m in sunny Vienna this week for the European Geosciences Union general assembly, a yearly gathering where several thousand scientists abandon their field and lab studies for an entire week to get together and talk earth, planets and space. With over 8,000 participants, this year’s meeting, held at the Austria Vienna Centre on the banks of the Danube, will be the society’s largest yet. Climate change and energy occupy sizeable slots on this year’s programme; hence my schlep across to Austria to meet with some of the authors behind the 12,000 abstracts. Following from a spate of recent coverage in … Read more
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